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Summer 2022

Going Where The Wind Takes Us

We untied our lines at Baotić Marina after a busy morning making use of all the facilities and motored 2nm to the bay opposite for a quiet night. Uvala Racetinovac is a pretty bay with nothing other than trees, an old ruin and of course a random Hajduk sign painted onto a rock. There were […]

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Summer 2022

Messing Around in the Water

After a morning swim to untie our lines ashore, we motored out of Taršće bay and around some of the small islands in the archipelago. We passed Otok Marinkovac which had busy beach bars playing chill out tunes and bays full of Superyachts. There is a well known night club here called Carpe Diem which […]

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Summer 2022

Travelling Slowly

After a week on the island of Korčula, we finally lifted our anchor which was very well dug in after the strong winds pulling on it. The anchor weighs 25kg, we eventually managed to release it and brought it up along with what seemed like an additional 25kg of sandy mud from the seabed. It […]

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Summer 2022

Discovering Grk

Having provisioned in Dubrovnik, we were below deck early the next morning preparing to leave when a large motor boat arrived sounding its horn and calling us. ZigZag was anchored just outside the marina which turned out to be the exact spot that this boat wanted to drop its anchor to reverse into its mooring […]

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Summer 2022

Great Sailing

With our course set to go due north we untied our lines at Brindisi. There was a good force 4 southwest wind blowing so we hoisted our main sail whilst still in the shelter of the harbour and motored out into the Adriatic. Once past all the ships and ferries going into the port, we […]